All Over Voiceover With Kiff Vh

SNEAK PREVIEW!! On May 1st, BETWEEN TAKES with AMANDA TROOP AND ZEHRA FAZAL drops. Since you subscribe to ALL OVER VO, I think you'd really love the insight and the comedy that runs throughout this unique show. Enjoy! You can subscribe to BETWEEN TAKES on Disctopia HERE .

This week, Kiff welcomes video game director John Dower (https://www.johndower.co.uk ) to the show. John is the co-founder of The Mocap Vaults, a spectauclar international motion capture training program. We talk about his coming up, the nature of being a director, the skill sets involved and what that means for actors in the volume. It's a fantastic conversation that sheds light on a wide array of topics that are vital to the working actor in today's emerging interactive market. Per our conversation: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/JohnDowerDirector/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/john_dower_director/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-dower-8219b22/Website - https://johndower.co.ukVimeo - https://vimeo.com/user6120374 MOCAP VAULTS LINKS -Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/themocapvaults/ INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/themocapvaults/Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-mocap-vaults/?viewAsMember=trueX - https://twitter.com/themocapvaultsWebsite - https://www.themocap

This week, Kiff is joined by the extraordinary Ally Dixon (The Croods: Family Tree, Thelma the Unicorn) in a spirited and dynamic conversation exploring self-care, expectations, and lifting up 1999's The Mummy. 

After over a year long hiatus, Kiff welcomes the fabulous Morla Gorrandona (Destiny Franchise, Call Of Duty, Moss, Mars Express) to the show. Morla explains the Linklater method and why it's been radically transformitive in her work, and breaks down her process for character creation and exploring her range, and shares several impressions as they talk voicematching, creatures, and many other topics in this fantastic episode. Worth the wait! Learn more about Morla and connect to her socials from her website: https://www.morlagorrondona.com/ 

This week, Kiff sits down with the brilliant and hilarious Sirena Irwin (SpongeBob SquarePants, director on The Croods Family Tree, Baby Shark, many more) to discuss her path to the director's chair, casting, character choice, specificity and rejection in a fascinating, hilarious, and unmissable All Over VO.   Follow Sirena on IG: @sirenairwin  

This week, Kiff welcomes the incredibly talented and hilarious actor and director JB Blanc (Vander in Arcane, Caustic in Apex Legends, Director of COD Vanguard, Kano in Mortal Kombat 11, Blisk in Titanfall, Batir in Barry, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul) who shares his experiences working for the past 30+ years in the business of show and how he stays in, continues to develop and grow to new opportunities, and how the more you practice, the luckier you get.  Follow JB @thejbblanc or meet him at a convention near you! Follow him for dates and appearances! www.jbblanc.com 

This week, Kiff welcomes the extraordinarily talented actor-director-casting director-studio owner Amber Lee Connors (My Hero Academia, Jujutsu Kaisen, Borderlands 3, FNAF: Help Wanted) to discuss her incredible journey from Ohio to Los Angeles, the challenges and traumas of life, and how her drive, work ethic, and personal sacrifice helped her build the career of her dreams, and how connecting to an online community and online resources that were available helped her transform her situation and lead her to this next phase of her journey, acting and directing in some of the premiere video games and anime series currently available.  You can follow all her socials @amberleeconnors and check out Amber's reels and work at www.amberleeconnors.com 

Kiff welcomes Eliah Mountjoy (Devil May Cry, Days Gone, Love Death+ Robots) to this new season of All Over VO. Eliah shares his tremendously varied experience as we discuss his process, his work ethic and his story in this inspiring conversation about reconnecting to basic elements of an artist's desire to become the storyteller he has always been inside. Check out more about Eliah at his website: eliahmountjoyvo.com and follow him on Twitter and Instagram @eliahmountjoy 

This week, Kiff is joined by Dr. Don Greene, a peak performance psychologist. Dr. Greene has taught his comprehensive approach to peak performance mastery at The Juilliard School, Colburn School, New World Symphony, Los Angeles Opera Young Artists Program, Vail Ski School, Perlman Music Program, and US Olympic Training Center. During his thirty-two year career, he has coached more than 1,000 performers to win professional auditions and has guided countless solo performers to successful careers. Some of the performing artists with whom Dr. Greene has worked have won jobs with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Opera, Montreal Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, National Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and the Dance Theatre of Harlem, to name just a few. Of the Olympic track and field athletes he worked with up until and through the 2016 Games in Rio, 14 won medals, including 5 gold. Dr. Greene has authored eight books including Audition

This week, Kiff welcomes the incredibly versatile and hilarious Amelia Borella (www.ameliaborella.com) to discuss her process and approach to her commercial and promo work as well as discussing comedy, improvisation, and what it means to "part your pantyhose" in this fantastic conversation.   Connect with Amelia on Twitter (@hellaborella) or on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ameliaborella/ 

This week, Kiff welcomes the extremely hilarious and talented voice actor, VO coach, and ClubHouse host, Danny Burnside (VOICEOVER PROS Host on ClubHouse). They talk about technique, approach to the work, giving back and a do a deep dive into all things VO, as well as an in depth conversation about the club Danny hosts on Clubhouse called VOICEOVER PROS, which is available to join for all clubhouse users.   You can find Danny on social media @VoiceoverHost on Twitter and IG, and at www.voiceoverhost.com 

This week Kiff sits down with Dan Zitt and Julie Wilson, the producers behind AHAB, the newly relaunched FREE talent database website to discuss how actors can get started and get seen/heard for not only the audiobooks Penguin Random House produces, but all other types of casting. A fantastic and exciting conversation!  Get started at www.ahabtalent.com as soon as you finish listening!    Follow @realdanzitt and @juliannanwilson and @ahabtalent on Twitter 

This week, Kiff's guest is the brilliant and hilarious Mindy Pack (www.mindypack.com) who is a vocal coach, performer and has developed the Voice Straw. She discusses daily practice, vocal health, preventing problems and how to use this fabulous tool to navigate vocal stress and exertions.   For ALL OVER VO listeners, you can get your own Voice Straw at a 10% discount by following this link: https://voicestraw.com/?ref=kiffvh , and using the coupon code "KIFFVH"    Get blowing! 

This week's guest, the brilliant and hilarious Rama Vallury, shares his extraordinary journey into VO and improvisation in LA, from his early beginnings with impressions and radio, to how he has managed to learn VO through the help of different coaches and slowly build his career to included union animated shows. Episode 2 of 2. 

This week's guest, the brilliant and hilarious Rama Vallury, shares his extraordinary journey into VO and improvisation in LA, from his early beginnings with impressions and radio, to how he has managed to learn VO through the help of different coaches and slowly build his career to included union animated shows. Episode 1 of 2. 

This week, multi talented creature performer, writer, director, editor and actor Alan Maxson (Godzilla: King of Monsters, Eli Roth's History of Horror, Alien Planet) drops by to share his incredible journey into and through the film industry to how his love of Enemy Mine inspired him to write and direct his feature Alien Planet (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/alien-planet-sci-fi-film#/) and what motivates and inspires him to do some of the most physically demanding work our industry has to offer. A fascinating interview with a fantastic and inspiring man. Don't miss it! Follow Alan on IG and Twitter: @monster_maxson and @alienplanetfilm 

Returning once again to All Over VO is the brilliant and wonderful BAFTA AWARD winning voice actress CISSY JONES (@cissyspeaks) who shares with Kiff her approach to networking and her passion for making the VO village safer and better for all, with details about the upcoming virtual SVARA VO Summit, March 5-7. To get more info and sign up, visit: http://www.svaraproject.com/events/voiceoversummit 

This brief and final episode of 2020 features some home recording and equipment tips along with impassioned recommendation for incorporation. Look, I just missed you all and wanted to drop by and say Hello, I miss ya, Hang in there, and Godspeed 2020! 

This week, Kiff welcomes Dr. Alisa Shawn, co-founder of ACTORS FOR AUTISM, a non-profit that trains people on the autistic spectrum to work in the entertainment industry.  Dr. Alisa Shawn is an Autism Expert, Technology Curriculum Developer, Professor at Autism University, Executive Director/Founder of Actors for Autism, Author, and Speaker based in the United States.  Her site, www.dralisashawn.com provides individuals on the Autistic Spectrum resources for becoming employed or self-employed. Her website is a wealth of information with a weekly blog www.dralisashawn.com/blog. Dr. Shawn is one of the most sought after consultants in the country. Her technology and curriculum designs were the 1st of its kind to become vendored by the California Regional Centers.  She has designed vocational training programs for adults on the autistic spectrum in Film, Animation, Video Game Design, Visual Effects, and 360VR that are offered at www.afahub.com. These programs have trained hundreds of adults and

FLASHBACK: The dynamic duo of home recording solutions and the hosts of the weekly VO essential podcast VOBS, Dan Lenard (www.homevoiceoverstudio.com) and George Whittam (www.georgethe.tech) make the word "guru" sound trite, with their extensive expierence, knowledge, and sense of playfulness, they are the Car Talk of Home Recording. Kiff sits down with them both in this incredibly informative episode that goes deeper into the tech of home recording than we've gone before and finds what's really at the heart of a great recording... you. Listen to their show every week LIVE at 6pm PST at www.vobs.tv or stream previous episodes on their youtube channel.